PHI 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Emotivism, Cultural Relativism, Relativism
17 Nov 2017
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The view that an action is right if one approves of it. Genuine moral disagreement between individuals is nearly impossible. Moral judgments are a matter of preference ( taste ). The view that an action is right if one"s culture approves of it (moral rightness and wrongness are relative to cultures. ) From the fact that people in different cultures have different moral judgments, it does not follow that the cultures have different moral standards. People may differ in their moral judgments, not just because they accept different moral principles, but also because they have divergent nonmoral beliefs. Disagreements may arise simply because some people are wrong about the objective moral facts. If tolerance is an objective moral value, then cultural relativism must be false. There is no necessary connection between tolerance and cultural relativism. According to cultural relativism, intolerance can be justified just as easily as tolerance. Rejecting cultural relativism (embracing moral objectivism) does not entail intolerance.
